Literature Studies

Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First publication.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

In Bloomsbury at 35, its editors-in-chief Liz Calder and Alexandra Pringle have selected gems of Bloomsbury's fiction since its founding, creating an anthology to be treasured - a joyful celebration of Bloomsbury's first 35 years.

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices. -- .

The best of The Dublin Review in recent years … Sally Rooney, Kevin Barry, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín …. 288 pages

This book is a collaborative enterprise, British, French and Irish, representing the countries where Peter Rice passed most of his life and the cultures that formed him.

From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit-play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a decade later, Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary.

The definitive biography of John Clare -- the poet's poet -- from Jonathan Bate

A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend).